Here's my thing too Mo, I don't know about rural areas of Cali, but there are Tyson chicken houses everywhere in western KY and I know several Mennonite families in the business. When you get up close and personal with the mass production of poultry in this country, you'd never eat it again. Serious as the Plague here man. Rougher than a night in the LA County jail.
Anyway, it ruined it for me and now I raise my own chickens and buy them to raise and slaughter myself. I remember my grandmother killing and cooking a young rooster when I was a child. She would dispatch it quickly early in the morning (don't ask how), scald and pluck it, soak it in buttermilk all day in the fridge and fry it in lard rendered from the fat of pastured Berkshires the family butchered each winter. Man, we don't eat like that these days.